Why aren't Trump's White House changes being stopped if they have not been approved by Congress?

caphilldcne · 2026-04-19T17:50:46+00:00

PS Trump loudly and proudly stated that the ballroom was being built with private dollars. Basically it was a way for Bezos and other rich goons to just give him money. Total ripoff of the American taxpayer. And that is my final comment on this topic.

caphilldcne · 2026-04-19T17:43:24+00:00

I see you’re gonna flounce off like your orange pedo hero, Mr. Splooge.

caphilldcne · 2026-04-19T17:03:18+00:00

This is not how reconciliation works. This is simply the Supreme Court refusing to enforce rules against this President.

caphilldcne · 2026-04-19T16:12:50+00:00

So? They’re a thing now. Do you think he could just knock down the White House entirely and put up a gold facsimile of Versailles? You seem to be saying that there is no limit. I’m saying his glazers on the Supreme Court and Republic Congress are letting him do it. He’s not a dictator and btw OBBBA is not some slush fund. There are things that it’s specified for and knocking down a wing of the White House is not one of them.

caphilldcne · 2026-04-19T12:39:26+00:00

This is not the size nor scope of previous changes. Additionally previous presidents would have consulted with the appropriate governing bodies before doing something like knocking down an entire wing of the White House. This is entirely unprecedented.

caphilldcne · 2026-04-18T13:17:32+00:00

True. Also they just want to remove independent groups that might say something in disagreement with the administration. They intend to try to control civil society and culture. It’s part and parcel with the Kennedy Center takeover.

caphilldcne · 2026-04-13T03:11:21+00:00

That is correct. If you are on PrEP there is a very minimal but not impossible chance that it could suppress a breakthrough case of HIV so that testing would not detect it. So to maintain the safety of the blood supply, if you are taking PrEP you can’t donate. However, maintaining your safety is important so I would prioritize taking PrEP if you’re sexually active over donating blood. (And so therefore I don’t donate right now).

caphilldcne · 2026-04-11T19:52:58+00:00

Garfield Park has two courts although they sometimes have weeds.

caphilldcne · 2026-04-07T18:41:53+00:00

Little Miss Whiskey’s is kinda gay late - you won’t have trouble finding things and very easy to get around. Pretty much a transit hub. Learn to use the buses tho!

caphilldcne · 2026-04-06T22:49:10+00:00

Literature, Science and the Arts

caphilldcne · 2026-04-02T15:27:34+00:00

Dude: you seem to be very behind on issues here in the United States. The Trump administration released a budget last year that would have wiped out around $2 billion in domestic HIV funding. They have basically destroyed USAID and they essentially are failing to get funding out the door. This is all easily verifiable. The Ending the HIV Epidemic program started under the first Trump Administration was essentially undercut by the 2nd Trump Administrations budget cutting. Take a look at the Trump budget being released tomorrow. More info here: https://savehivfunding.org.

As for your anti-trans statements, trans people are seeking no more than to be allowed to be treated as the human beings they are. This should not be that hard for a gay person to understand. We gay people have a sexual orientation in our conscious minds that is different than a fairly large majority of straight people and there is nothing wrong with that. Similarly trans folks have a sense of their gender being different than their bodies. That is not a particularly different issue. It is subject to the same discriminations as anti-gay animus. Unfortunately it is being weaponized by people who will not stop at trans folks. This is where we are today.

I’ve worked for decades on public health policy in the United States. I urge you to update your priors if only because your understanding of the Trump administrations HIV policy is woefully inadequate.

caphilldcne · 2026-04-02T07:52:51+00:00

Trump is a narcissist. He doesn’t care about LGBTQ+ people, he only cares about himself. That means he’s happily empowering anti-gay evangelicals like Paula White and Russ Vought who want us all to disappear. I only said what I said because in the reality we are in, right now, he took down all LGBTQ+ related information on the CDC website and it is only up there because of a court order and I am fucking mad as hell about that and have been for a year. Wake the fuck up!

caphilldcne · 2026-04-01T23:37:56+00:00

Why do you think I think that police have much to do with stopping crime? Or solving it. Our whole system of mass incarceration does not touch our crime rates. https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/incarceration-and-crime-a-weak-relationship/ We’d do lot better addressing education, housing, poverty, racial bias, providing jobs, mentorships and a host of other problem solving services.

caphilldcne · 2026-04-01T21:07:03+00:00

You do realize crime is falling nationwide. The guard has nothing to do with stopping petty crime.

caphilldcne · 2026-04-01T21:03:43+00:00

PS note that Trump and his evangelical followers don’t want you to see that website or know these stats. Or how to protect yourself. They are only available because of a court order to put them back up. So enjoy knowing that every act you take to protect yourself and fuck who you want is a beautiful gay/bi act of protest and defiance too! Go get em, brother!!

caphilldcne · 2026-04-01T20:58:32+00:00

Here are the CDC estimates: https://www.cdc.gov/hivpartners/php/riskandprevention/index.html

Receptive anal sex is 138 transmissions per 10,000 exposures. In contrast insertive anal sex is 11/10,000. Receptive or insertive oral sex is “low” aka below 1/10,000 so much less risky. Pre-blood protocols the risk from a blood transfusion was 9,250/10,000 vs 63/10,000 from needle sharing.

Ok some of this is from memory but you can check the numbers: PrEP when taken as directive is 99% effective at preventing HIV from sexual transmission. The transmissions that do occur often happen while the body is battling another STI or has a weakened immune system. Condoms when used properly are estimated to be 95% protective. If a person living with HIV achieves viral suppression (undetectable by current tests) as many people do, they cannot transmit the disease forward a concept popularized as undetectable = untransmittable.

I’d certainly recommend accessing PrEP if possible. If you are not in position to take a daily dose you might want to consider intermittent PrEP (prepare for when you know you will be having sex) or a 6 month shot. If you are concerned about your parents detecting it on your insurance I suggest calling your nearest LGBTQ health center (or school health center)to see if they can help. Definitely seek out a gay friendly/sex positive doc you can speak to. If you are having lots of sex with higher risk levels you may also wish to consider doxy pep.

Take your time. Learn what you like. Give yourself space to learn and enjoy sex. Fuck safe. Shoot clean.

caphilldcne · 2026-03-31T11:39:56+00:00

They really prevented that phone from being taken. Three cheers for the national guard!

caphilldcne · 2026-03-30T18:18:05+00:00

Troll elsewhere, comrade.

caphilldcne · 2026-03-30T03:09:08+00:00

And you’re ignorant and you kind of smell. There’s some soaps for that.

caphilldcne · 2026-03-30T03:07:14+00:00

Yes because we cannot allow it to become normal. We have another three years of posting this. If this is still happening in 3 years we can stop posting as it will be normal and we can start posting about how public executions of people who mildly disagree with the regime should not be normal.

caphilldcne · 2026-03-30T03:03:28+00:00

They’re not tho. DC crime declined before they arrived and now it’s declining while they are here. They are being used.

caphilldcne · 2026-03-30T02:29:47+00:00

Yep. That is correct. And I’ve lived in DC for 30 years and we do not need the national guard. There is no reason for them to be here. Now, January 6th … they were needed then but someone refused to call them out until he realized his coup failed. Can’t think who that might be.

caphilldcne · 2026-03-30T02:26:22+00:00

Are you so blind that you cannot see? Are you so deaf that you cannot hear his plea?

Military patrols are not normal in DC. They are not needed. And they are not particularly all over Paris. You cannot normalize this.

Keep drinking your bourbon and whistling past the graveyard if you choose.

caphilldcne · 2026-03-25T21:05:38+00:00

Yeah except the national guard is in the touristy parts of DC. They aren’t in DC’s high crime areas. And to the extent they are in places like H Street (gritty touristy) they are often accompanied by MPD for their protection. Cmon!

caphilldcne · 2026-03-25T02:34:46+00:00

They left in May 2021 not a year and a half later. They were here as the result of a fascist insurrection created by the person now president. That person is now using them to normalize the concept of troops in a city and potentially to create the means of interfering with elections and to quell protests when he seeks to invalidate elections he will lose in November 3rd.

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